It features two one-story shed porches supported by square pillars ornamented by scroll sawn brackets.

The Quaker Meadows plantation was the home of Revolutionary War figure, Col. Charles McDowell.

It was at Quaker Meadows that Zebulon Baird Vance (later American Civil War governor) married Charles McDowell's niece, Harriet N.

Since Joseph Quaker Meadows McDowell, Jr. died in 1801, the original plantation must have been built during his lifetime.

[3] This article about a property in Burke County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.